The Chief Minister during his visit to Gurugram on Saturday (April 15) had promised that the MCG would take over the private colonies for civic services.
The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has finally been given orders to take over the various private colonies in the City. Colonies such as, DLF (Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3), Sushant Lok-1 and Palam Vihar would be taken over by the MCG from May 15- June 30.
The order came after a meeting held in Chandigarh on Wednesday which was chaired by Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar in the presence of Chief Secretary Rajesh Khullar and senior officials of MCG and the Department Of Town and Country Planning.
The Chief Minister during his visit to Gurugram on Saturday (April 15) had promised that the MCG would take over the private colonies for civic services.
The residents of these private developers had previously requested the Chief Minister and the MCG to take over, as the private players were not taking care of civil amenities.
Private colonies such as DLF Phases I to IV, South City I and II, Ansal's Palam Vihar and Sushant Lok, Ardee City, Vatika City, besides others, are now being maintained by their respective developers. Residents in these colonies say that these developers were not maintaining the conditions of roads here and other civic services too were not up to the mark.
For this, they had given representations to the Town and Country Planning Department and the Urban Local Bodies to expedite the transfer to the MCG.
"There was a serious problem with the way these private developers were drawing money from the residents to upkeep Civic Services," said RS Rathee of the Gurgaon Citizen Council.
"The dispensaries and community clubs which were promised were not provided in most of the areas," he added.
Currently, residents of all the private colonies pay their property tax to MCG but separate charges are given to the developers for maintaining civic amenities.
"The roads in our area are not renovated since the past five years. It gets really difficult in rains to drive. The decision is a huge relief for all those people who are being exploited by the private developers," said resident Deepak Chaudhary who lives in Palam Vihar.
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